The Game Design Thread of Epicness!

[raspberry jam]

i could try to design a content of art, there are really weird paintings and statues in the world.
may a world similar to the world of alice in wonderland, nothing makes sense in that world.

i was going to suggest an art world, but you already had a music world so I thought, better not.

Though now when you mention it. It would be cool if, in the art world, everything looked like a painting. And in different places of the world, the painting would be in a different style (some would look realistic, some would look like Picasso style art, some would just be abstract geometries and stuff).

[sorudo]

rob did gave me an idea even while it's not the intent, what about a city in this content where everything solid looks weak and molted.
got the idea trough the clocks laying in robs map, weak and exhausted.

[Alaris]

Sounds good.

I think one thing you have to be careful is to over-use existing themes, especially if you lack the resources to make the same themes but better than how others have done it. Melting city would certainly be original.

[raspberry jam]

Melting city would certainly be original.

Sounds hot... Unless the buildings are made of ice...

[Rob Van Der Sloot]

rob did gave me an idea even while it's not the intent, what about a city in this content where everything solid looks weak and molted.
got the idea trough the clocks laying in robs map, weak and exhausted.

Sounds cool. A friend of mine recently had a great idea for a D&D setting. What if there is a town where people randomly receive an orb that allows for one wish, and everything they wish comes true within a limited radius? But they can only do one wish, and then the orb teleports to a new position. So the wishign orb constantly changes hands. And you have to clearly state your wish, or it might backfire. Imagine what kind of chaos would erupt in a town or continent where everyone randomly receives a wish? The continent would basically never have one ruler, because anyone in power can expect to be hated by someone, and that person might end up wishing the ruler to turn into a goat. People could instantly go from extremely poor to filthy rich and the other way around. There might also be a high casualty rate, because someone might wish to be the richest man in the world, and be instantly teleported to an uninhabited planet. That is why there would be expensive lawyers, who perfectly phrase the wish of their clients so it will not backfire, for a high price. And there might be an inquisition, who magically steals people's wishes and locks those wishes away. There would be a special police force to prevent anyone from doing a wish. You could make a setting as insane as you like. It doesn't have to just revolve around visuals. In fact, I would go for a narrative setting first. Anyone can think up a land made of candy, and it has been done a million times. But to design a continent with really weird laws of physics, or politics is much more interesting.

I once thought up a land in which the use of magic was outlawed. The players were strangers in this land, and constantly noticed people with black dots on their forehead... and sometimes someone with a red dot. So one of the party members used a healing spell, and was instantly thrown in jail, and marked with a red dot. The black dots were for ordinary criminals (thiefs, murderers, etc). People in this land would often cover their foreheads, and were sometimes kept from entering certain establishments if they had a dot on their forehead, or if they refused to uncover their forehead. Fun times.

[Alaris]

Speaking of that. I had reservations to eat at an ice hotel, but they cancelled because they had to close early of schedule because the thing is melting. Good thing I choose to get engaged this past weekend instead of doing it there because that plan would have literally fallen in water (a french expression, I am not sure if it works in english).

[raspberry jam]

And you have to clearly state your wish, or it might backfire.

I have had so much fun with this. Too bad it's hard to convey to a video game since, you know, getting a game to understand a logical hole in something a player type in...

Speaking of that. I had reservations to eat at an ice hotel, but they cancelled because they had to close early of schedule because the thing is melting. Good thing I choose to get engaged this past weekend instead of doing it there because that plan would have literally fallen in water (a french expression, I am not sure if it works in english).

It works well enough in this case. I hope you had a nice dinner somewhere else.

[Alaris]

We had breakfast at a place that specializes in chocolate ;) Then we went shopping for rings... I get a ring too

Speaking of chocolate and melting cities... There was a scene about a chocolate castle melting in that Johnny Depp movie about chocolate (but not the Chocolate one) I forget the name but I think it had Chocolate Factory in it.

[Rob Van Der Sloot]

I have had so much fun with this. Too bad it's hard to convey to a video game since, you know, getting a game to understand a logical hole in something a player type in...

You could limit the choices, or not offer wishes to the players at all, only to npc's. What matters is that players would feel the consequences of the wishes. Quests could revolve around solving the crazy issues that pop up when ever someone makes a wish.

For example: Suddenly everyone is losing their money, and it is rolling through the streets. Or the king has been transformed into a gerbil, because someone hated his guts. Or one of the church towers has crashed upon the city, because some moron wished that a particular religion wouldn't be so big. Another npc might explode into bloody chunks in the middle of the marketplace, because he wished he was as far away from here as possible. And there could be riots whenever a wishing orb appears in a public place. There would be riots, looting, and curfews with guards patrolling the streets at night.

[raspberry jam]

Rob, you just gave me an idea. Ok Imagine this: A villain who gets what he wants by giving people what they wish for. Except, her version of it.

...mmm, maybe it's already been done...

We had breakfast at a place that specializes in chocolate ;)

Oh hell yes. Sounds like this one is getting off to a good start...